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Bingo of crappy IT processes (lemmy.ml)

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[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

So what's the actual error margin for estimating feature implementation time? It's going to be nearly the whole thing, right?

[–] psud@aussie.zone 4 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

The estimate is not a promise, it's a guess. I prefer to estimate in sprints because that's about the resolution we can have confidence in, but management want hours so my process is to estimate the number of hours in a sprint (73.5 for us) plus one sprint

200% overruns are common, especially when requirements change significantly